Friday, 8 May 2015

A changeling, as noted in my very last post, is an "otherworld", sometimes sickly creature, who was substituted for a healthy human infant - in the dead of night.

Yesterday the U.K. voted, the results compiled overnight.As prophesied here, courtesy the opinion polls, the Scottish National Party - who's name speaks for itself - did the business. Ex leader, Alex Salmond, commented, as widely reported :"The winds are blowing across Scotland and they're blowing very strongly, believe me, in the north east of Scotland.

'There's
going to be a lion roaring tonight, a Scottish lion, and it's going to
roar with a voice that no government of whatever political complexion is
going to be able to ignore."

The North East corner is important in freemasonry. "Surely no Mason ever forgets the moment when he is placed
in the Northeast Corner of the Lodge, and hears the Master say, that he there
stands a just and upright Mason. It is one of the thrills along the great
journey of initiation, a point at which the idea and purpose of Masonry begin to
take shape in the mind."

But why the Northeast Corner? Would not some other
corner of the Lodge do as well? Perhaps it would, but Masonry is very old,
going back into a time far gone, when ordinary things had meanings, real or
imaginary, beyond their practical use. Such a question opens a window into
things quaint, curious, and even awful; and all sorts of explanations are
offered us, some of which may be named...

Then, turning to the history of religion, he finds, not
unnaturally, many rites of primitive peoples - magical rituals and Midsummer
Night Dreams - celebrating the Summer Solstice. Many hints and relics of
the old Light Religion are preserved for us in Masonry - rays of its faiths and
fictions - one of them being that the Northeast Corner of the Universe, and so
of the Lodge of which it is a symbol, is the seat of the Sun-God in the prime of
his power.

Demelza Powell in 2012 with the Olympic baton. It's day 34, the procession having doubled back into Scotland overnight, 33 -34. The statue is of freemason Robert Burns, making the "lion's paw" symbol. It's Prince William's "Summer Solstice" birthday too.

Lions are important in freemasonry. I'm not too sure why. I know that when a male lion takes over a pride, it kills any male lion cubs of his predecessor. Usually he eats some of it too. Top masons make a "lion's paw" symbol with a clenched hand. When the European Treaty of Lisbon was signed, it was done so later than the rest of the participant's representatives by Scottish Gordon Brown, then U.K. P.M. The location of this, now goatskin bound document, ritual was Jeronimes Chapel, a place named after a character who wandered round the world with a lame lion, the poor animal leaving drops of blood at his overnight stops. Work that out.

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Many moons ago, if a child went missing, often fairies or other dimensional entities were held to blame. Another trick played by these creatures was to replace a healthy infant with a sickly one of their own - a changeling - the human parents then acting as unwitting "cuckoo" carers. It's worth musing over.

I wrote last month regarding the fairy hunt in Edinburgh's Royal Botanical Gardens, sparked by a Findhorn Foundation co-founder, Rosicrucian Robert Crombie's, alleged close encounters with a centaur and Pan at the same location.

The Centaur Spot.Apparently the search has been a success; although no actual fairies were encountered, "psychic vortices" and a potential portal to who knows where were located, via dowsing, by the hunters. (here)

In my last post I noted once again the curious correlation between James "Joker" Holmes' Denver rampage and the 2012 Olympic torch descent into the Tower of London, where "the power and the significance of the Monarch resides". On Royal baby Charlottes' birth-day, the Edinburgh Evening News reported that Kate McCann, of Maddie fame, plans to lead a pack of 20 cyclists to the Tower in order to raise money for a missing persons charity. The procession is due to leave from Edinburgh's (King) Arthur's Seat, an extinct lion-like volcano which gazes over the Scottish Parliament and Royal Holyrood Palace. It's volcanic plug forms the rocky foundation for Edinburgh Castle and "it's" Stone of Destiny. The event will begin on 13th June, exactly 3 years to the day after the Olympic Torch travelled from St. Andrews (where Kate and Wills allegedly met) to Edinburgh Castle. (Beachcombing)